What’s Really in Your Fast Food

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What’s Really in Your Fast Food
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Fast food fries seem simple in concept. But in reality, they often have more than 15 ingredients, including sugar and artificial coloring.

The humble potato, fried in a vat of simmering oil, and finished with a sprinkling of salt. What could be simpler? Apparently, quite a lot. Fast-food fries often have more than 15 ingredients, including sugar and artificial coloring. They also have preservatives like sodium acid pyrophosphate and tert-butylhydroquinone, which in high doses has been linked to vision problems.Ground beef, right? Sure -- but there also may be growth hormones and antibiotics, which can end up in your system.

Some of the ingredients listed for what one national outlet calls a “fried egg” include modified corn starch, soybean oil, medium chain triglycerides, propylene glycol, artificial flavor, citric acid, xanthan gum, and -- oh yeah -- egg whites and yolks . If you didn’t bargain for all of that, ask for the propylene glycol on the side.What’s in them? Let’s just say they make full use of the animals that supply the meat.

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